Winter 2011 - 65° Magazine

complimentary small plate meals throughout the day to
include an espresso, coffee and dessert station.
“It has a residential feel, sort of a hotel within a hotel type
atmosphere on these two floors,” says Holt. “You don’t
have the hustle and bustle of the main lobby with guests
coming and going. Up here you can read the London
Times or The Wall Street Journal in peace and leisure.”
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And try as you may, you won’t find another restaurant in
town that offers more formal service than the Ritz Carlton
Dining Room, which serves modern French cuisine with
a Japanese influence created by the award-winning
Chef Siegal. The less formal Terrace Restaurant serves
contemporary Mediterranean cuisine and the city’s best
Sunday brunch. If that weren’t enough, the hotel goes
beyond your expectations by offering classic afternoon
tea and cocktails with low-key live entertainment daily, and
sushi Wednesday through Saturday in their Lobby Lounge.
It also features Oyster Bars and special drink nights.
While floors eight and nine are amazing, guest rooms on
floors one through seven are equally amazing, showcasing
furniture reflective of San Francisco’s various multi-cultural
influences: Chinoiserie cabinets, European-influenced
bed chests and intricately detailed bedside tables and
headboards, original artwork by local artists featuring
city landmarks and scenes, Kohler Performance rain
showerheads, upgraded bath essentials, in-room gourmet
coffee and tea presentations hidden in a decorative wooden
chest, and added bathroom shelving and cabinetry.
For the “Tim Allens” in all of you, you’ll enjoy a 32-inch High-
Definition, LCD flat-panel television with dual speakers
and DVD/CD player and Lodgenet High-Definition Digital
cable television and Pay-Per-View movies, wireless
Internet access, built-in electrical outlets and Broadband
connections on guestroom desktops, electronic inroom
laptop safes, and iPod docking stations. For the
Presidential Suites only, which will set you back a
mere six grand, you will enjoy a Bang & Olufsen
10-speaker surround-sound system and a 50-
inch High-Definition, LCD Flat-screen television
with dual speakers in the living room and 32-inch
High-Definition, LCD Flat-panel television with
dual speakers above the bathtub.
Irving Berlin wrote it right and Fred Astaire sang it
best … “Come, let’s mix where Rockefellers walk
with sticks or umbrellas in their mitts … Puttin’ on
the Ritz,” but you don’t have to be high society to
enjoy all the amenities this hotel has to offer. “Our
guests come from all walks of life, from business
people to guests of leisure who want to explore
Wine Country or Half Moon Bay. Our clientele is
a broad spectrum who comes from all over the
world. They’re here for the service and location,”
says Holt. “They know our name and reputation.
Our clients have an expectation of beautiful
rooms and excellent service.”
ritz-carlton
san francisco
600 Stockton St. at California St.
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 296-7465
RitzCarlton.com/SanFrancisco